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Encyclopedia of Islamic Insurance, Takaful and Retakaful
Mohd M. Billah, Ezzedine GhlamAllah, Christos Alexakis
The model of Islamic insurance policy is based on the principles of mutual cooperation, brotherhood and solidarity. This timely volume contradicts the widely-held belief that insurance policies oppose the teachings of Islam, exploring wa...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Social Trust and Economic Development
O. Yul Kwon
In just one generation, South Korea has transformed from a recipient of foreign aid to a member of the G20. In this informative book, South Korea is used as a case by which to explore and illustrate specific issues arising from the compl...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Skilled Labor Mobility and Migration
Edited by Elisabetta Gentile
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. One of the primary objectives of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), established in 2015, was ... -
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Economic Security and Sino-American Relations
Kenneth Boutin
China and the United States have reached a crossroads where their economic relationship is concerned, as the shared interest in economic prosperity and complementary economic strengths that provide the common ground of industrial collabo...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Building a Normative Order in the South China Sea
Edited by Truong T. Tran, John B. Welfield, Thuy T. Le
The South China Sea, where a number of great powers and regional players contend for influence, has emerged as one of the most potentially explosive regions in the world today. What can be done to reduce the possibility of conflict, solv...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Religion and Finance
Mervyn K. Lewis, Ahmad Kaleem
Judaism, Christianity and Islam all impose obligations and constraints upon the rightful use of wealth and earthly resources. All three of these religions have well-researched views on the acceptability of practices such as usury but the...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Institutional Evolution of China
Fan Zhang
China’s experience over the past decades is not just a story of economic growth, it is also one of institutional change. The current political-economic system is a bureaucratic market system, in which the government and the market both c...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Managing Currency Risk
Takatoshi Ito, Satoshi Koibuchi, Kiyotaka Sato, Junko Shimizu
This book demonstrates how exporters’ decisions regarding choice of invoice currency can be influenced by many factors including firm size, product competitiveness, intra/inter-firm trades, and the geography of export destination. The ai...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Evolution of Korean Industrial and Employment Relations
Edited by Young-Myon Lee, Bruce E. Kaufman
The Evolution of Korean Industrial and Employment Relations explores current employment and workplace relations practice in South Korea, tracing their origins to key historical events and giving cultural, politico-economic and global con...eBook:Find out more£29.56
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Human Capital and Development
Ju-Ho Lee, Hyeok Jeong, Song Chang Hong
During recent decades, Korea has been one of only a handful of countries that have made the successful transformation to become a developed nation by simultaneously achieving persistent economic growth combined with a democratic politica...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Economic Stagnation in Japan
Edited by Dongchul Cho, Takatoshi Ito, Andrew Mason
Japan’s dramatic transformation from economic success to economic stagnation offers important policy lessons to advanced countries everywhere that are struggling with stagnation. The term ‘Japanization’ is often used by economists to des...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Islamic Wealth Management
Edited by Mohamed Ariff, Shamsher Mohamad
From an Islamic perspective, although the ownership of wealth is with God, humans are gifted with wealth to manage it with the objective of benefiting human society. Such guidance means that wealth management is a process involving the g...eBook:Find out more£25.00